Quotes About Industry

The curious thing about dieting is that if it worked, you would only have to do it once. Diet companies rely on a 95 per cent recidivism rate: a figure that should be etched into every dieter's consciousness.

Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.

So rather than focus on the coal mining itself, we're going to focus on the coal,

so pleased and grateful was she to have a position in fashion.

Marriage is a conspiracy from Tiffany, florists, the diamond industry, and Christian fundamentalists. The only thing good about it is the diamond ring, the wedding gifts, and the honeymoon.

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a 'character' than a model.

What I can say that's different in American television... in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it's not working, take it off and put something else in on the fall schedule.

As part of being in the industry you do watch what others are doing. I think that's something good to do.

This is a fast-paced world we live in, especially the sports and entertainment industry. There is a constant demand for performance, for something new, something excellent. That doesn't just happen. You have to have enough inside to pour out.

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors.

I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry.

One of the reasons - I stopped doing films for about a year and a half because I felt that I was being somewhat used by producers that were trying to get their movies made within a certain budget range and not take care of me.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do.

I am planning to leave Mumbai and go somewhere else in search of guys. I don't want to settle with a guy from the industry.

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

Hollywood has always seen Sondheim as a caviar brand unsuitable for a popcorn industry.

It's such a cycle. You'll see a rapper drop a song, and next thing you know, he's gone.

Stony Skunk, when they were with our company, had a song which I personally like called 'Red Light District.'

If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.

I grew up in the entertainment industry, and I think being around that gave me a different perspective on people and what's real and what's fake. I think about that a lot, and it comes out in my songs.

I always charge for my songs and never sing for free.